Lewis Paten "Pate" Huddleston was the sixth of eight children born to Joel and Sarah Huddleston, in Lamar, Randolph County, Alabama. As a young man his family moved to Montague County, Texas. He married Gertrude Carson and they had three children there in Texas; Olden, Oliver and Albert. He returned to Alabama where daughter Alma was born. For reasons unknown, that marriage ended and Pate remarried to Rubie Mae Kiker. Their first three children died as infants, then a healthy son Altus was born in Lamar. They moved to Haralson County, Georgia, where two more children were born; Robert and Geneva. Children from Pate's first marriage were no longer in the household, and daughter Alma was living with Pate's parents back in Lamar, Alabama.
As the years went by, Pate's daughter Alma married and had two children; Laura and Sam in 1925 and 1927, and they continued to live in Alabama. In 1929 Pate received word that a traveling salesman had come through where Alma lived with her husband and the two small children, and persuaded her to leave her husband, take the children and run away with him to Georgia. Pate also learned that they had gone to nearby Fayette County. He was furious. He searched them out and found the man in Dave McWilliams' store in Fayetteville, where he confronted him. On the front porch of the store, the two men engaged in a pistol duel, and killed each other.
So Pate died of the gunshot wound on 22 August, 1929, and is buried in the Brown Family Cemetery there in Fayette County. What became of daughter Alma is not known, but the two children were returned to Alabama where Pate's younger sister Martha Huddleston Yarbrough and her husband Henry adopted them.
As the years went by, Pate's daughter Alma married and had two children; Laura and Sam in 1925 and 1927, and they continued to live in Alabama. In 1929 Pate received word that a traveling salesman had come through where Alma lived with her husband and the two small children, and persuaded her to leave her husband, take the children and run away with him to Georgia. Pate also learned that they had gone to nearby Fayette County. He was furious. He searched them out and found the man in Dave McWilliams' store in Fayetteville, where he confronted him. On the front porch of the store, the two men engaged in a pistol duel, and killed each other.
So Pate died of the gunshot wound on 22 August, 1929, and is buried in the Brown Family Cemetery there in Fayette County. What became of daughter Alma is not known, but the two children were returned to Alabama where Pate's younger sister Martha Huddleston Yarbrough and her husband Henry adopted them.
Lewis Paten "Pate" Huddleston was the sixth of eight children born to Joel and Sarah Huddleston, in Lamar, Randolph County, Alabama. As a young man his family moved to Montague County, Texas. He married Gertrude Carson and they had three children there in Texas; Olden, Oliver and Albert. He returned to Alabama where daughter Alma was born. For reasons unknown, that marriage ended and Pate remarried to Rubie Mae Kiker. Their first three children died as infants, then a healthy son Altus was born in Lamar. They moved to Haralson County, Georgia, where two more children were born; Robert and Geneva. Children from Pate's first marriage were no longer in the household, and daughter Alma was living with Pate's parents back in Lamar, Alabama.
As the years went by, Pate's daughter Alma married and had two children; Laura and Sam in 1925 and 1927, and they continued to live in Alabama. In 1929 Pate received word that a traveling salesman had come through where Alma lived with her husband and the two small children, and persuaded her to leave her husband, take the children and run away with him to Georgia. Pate also learned that they had gone to nearby Fayette County. He was furious. He searched them out and found the man in Dave McWilliams' store in Fayetteville, where he confronted him. On the front porch of the store, the two men engaged in a pistol duel, and killed each other.
So Pate died of the gunshot wound on 22 August, 1929, and is buried in the Brown Family Cemetery there in Fayette County. What became of daughter Alma is not known, but the two children were returned to Alabama where Pate's younger sister Martha Huddleston Yarbrough and her husband Henry adopted them.
As the years went by, Pate's daughter Alma married and had two children; Laura and Sam in 1925 and 1927, and they continued to live in Alabama. In 1929 Pate received word that a traveling salesman had come through where Alma lived with her husband and the two small children, and persuaded her to leave her husband, take the children and run away with him to Georgia. Pate also learned that they had gone to nearby Fayette County. He was furious. He searched them out and found the man in Dave McWilliams' store in Fayetteville, where he confronted him. On the front porch of the store, the two men engaged in a pistol duel, and killed each other.
So Pate died of the gunshot wound on 22 August, 1929, and is buried in the Brown Family Cemetery there in Fayette County. What became of daughter Alma is not known, but the two children were returned to Alabama where Pate's younger sister Martha Huddleston Yarbrough and her husband Henry adopted them.
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